From: "Mikael Høilund" <mikael@...>
Date: 2008-08-18T16:05:58+09:00
Subject: Re: What's difference?


On Aug 18, 2008, at 8:29, Kyung won Cheon wrote:

> --- test1.rb ---
>
> b = 1
> puts a if a = b
>
> # NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:Object
>


Parser peculiarity. You can't use a local variable defined for the  
first time in the clause of an inline-if for that statement. Define a  
before it reaches that line, or use this instead:

if a = b then puts a end

-- 
# Mikael Høilund
def method_missing(m, a=0) a +
m.to_s[/[a-z]+/].size * 2; end
p What is the meaning of life?